Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noe, and all the wild beasts, and all the cattle, and all the birds, and all the reptiles that creep, as many as were with him in the ark, and God brought a wind upon the earth, and the water stayed.
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Genesis 19:29And it came to pass that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, God remembered Abraam, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot lived.
Exodus 2:24And God heard their groanings, and God remembered his covenant made with Abraam and Isaac and Jacob.
Numbers 22:32And the angel of God said to him, Why have you struck your ass this third time? and, behold, I came out to withstand you, for your way was not seemly before me; and when the ass saw me, she turned away from me this third time.
Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in regard to the house of the Lord God.
Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O God, for their false connection with the priesthood, and the breaking the covenant of the priesthood, and for defiling the Levites.
Job 12:15If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 8:1
In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one and the enlargement of the other. Now the scene alters, and another face of things begins to be presented to us, and the brighter side of that cloud which there appeared so black and dark; for, though God contend long, he will not contend for ever, nor be always wrath. We have here, I. The earth made anew, by the recess of the waters, and the appearing of the dry land, now a… Read the whole commentary →